Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Rear Admiral Julian L. Latimer arrived on board his flagship the armored cruiser Rochester, anchored off the Nicaraguan fortress of Bragmans Bluff, on the eastern coast, awaited orders from Washington...
Engaged. Lydia Archbold, next richest (Ailsa Mellon was the richest) Washington society girl; to Elliott Strauss, $2,000 a year ensign-son of Rear Admiral Joseph R. Strauss...
...buff-and-blue John Rodgers, lieutenant on the frigate, later Commander Rodgers. They pointed out that at no time since the last British gun boomed across Lake Erie has the Navy been without a distinguished member of the Rodgerses in its service. They mentioned that since 1900 five active rear admirals have been of the Rodgers family. "None of them," said Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, "was more brilliant than Commander John Rodgers. . . ." There is no Rodgers in the service now. Navy men all, he was the last of them, killed just after he had earned retirement from active service...
...south, the Bolshevist Cantonese Government launched a vigorous offensive against Hunan Province, a chief basic ally of Wu. He, co-victorious with Chang in the north, hastened 1,000 miles southward to defend what may loosely be called his "rear guard...
...sons of the prophet are hardy and bold And quite unaccustomed to fear; But of all-the most reckless of life and of limb Was Abdul, the Bulbul Emir! . . . When they wanted a man to encourage the van Or to shout 'Attaboy!' in the rear, Or to storm a redoubt, They always sent out, For Abdul, the Bulbul Emir...